Canoga Park High School
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If this trend holds (-1.2%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~1,269 | -15 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~1,238 | -46 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~1,208 | -76 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment growth is beating Los Angeles County (+18.0% vs. -8.2%), but 222 of 1486 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is rising (29.4%, +10.3 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
222 of 1,486 students who enrolled at Canoga Park High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (14.9% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.
Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25
Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.
Absenteeism is up 10.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).
SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025
Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.
Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.
Student composition — 2025-26
HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.
Race / ethnicity
Program subgroups
Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.
District financial profile — Los Angeles Unified (FY2020)
From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.
Local: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Los Angeles Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).
-20.0 pp vs. peer median (30.8%) · Ranked #7 of 7 similar schools
18.5%
30.8%
53.3%
10.8%
Higher than 22% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Canoga Park High School's UC Reach of 10.8% is below the California median (18.5%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 53.3% or higher.
Against similar schools, Canoga Park High School trails the peer-group median (30.8%) — even though it looks strong vs. the state average.
Overall, Canoga Park High School's UC Reach is higher than 22% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Canoga Park High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Canoga Park · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Canoga Park High School sits near the bottom of its similar-school group (ranked #7 of 7): 11% vs. a peer median of 31%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 3 points since 2018.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Canoga Park High School is admitting at roughly -5 percentage points below what its average applicant GPA (3.653) alone would predict (17% actual vs. 22% expected). That's worth understanding — it can reflect grade inflation that UC sees through, weaker holistic-review materials at the margin, or applicants concentrating at more selective campuses than typical. Not a verdict; a signal.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 18% (233→275 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -15%.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1238 by 2029 — about 46 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 46 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.
Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canoga Park High School | Public | 1284 | 10.8% | +18% |
| Peer-group median | 30.8% | -15% | ||
| Reseda Charter High | Public | 1322 | — | -43% |
| Chatsworth Charter High | Public | 1652 | 28.9% | -15% |
| Robert Fulton College Preparatory | Public | 1214 | — | -18% |
| Panorama High School | Public | 1198 | 32.7% | +13% |
| Calabasas High School | Public | 1786 | 50.5% | -9% |
| Oak Park High School | Public | 1489 | 56.4% | -0% |
| Sylmar Charter High | Public | 1349 | — | -24% |
| Taft Charter High | Public | 2157 | — | -15% |
| James Monroe High School | Public | 1732 | 14.4% | +1% |
| San Fernando High School | Public | 1528 | 19.3% | -35% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →
Admit rate vs. CA peer average, by campus ⓘ
How does this school's admit rate at each UC compare to other CA schools whose applicant pool averages the same GPA?
| Campus | Applicant GPA (avg) | Actual admit rate | CA peer avg | Δ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 3.66 | 9.4% | 14.0% | -4.6pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.78 | 6.5% | 9.1% | -2.5pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.54 | 31.2% | 34.0% | -2.8pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.66 | 23.7% | 27.7% | -4.0pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.74 | 13.5% | 18.6% | -5.1pp | Under |
| UC Davis | 3.43 | 20.0% | 34.2% | -14.2pp | Under |
Where Canoga Park High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants 5.0 points below what their GPAs predict (16.7% actual vs. 21.7% expected).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 32 | 3 | 3 | 9.4% | 0.9% | 100.0% | 3.66 | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 46 | 3 | — | 6.5% | 0.9% | — | 3.78 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 32 | 10 | 3 | 31.2% | 3.1% | 30.0% | 3.54 | 4.08 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 38 | 9 | — | 23.7% | 2.8% | — | 3.66 | 4.15 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 37 | 5 | — | 13.5% | 1.5% | — | 3.74 | 4.13 |
| UC Davis → | 25 | 5 | 3 | 20.0% | 1.5% | 60.0% | 3.43 | 3.99 |